Imagine being gifted in the field of paranormal activity, and with this gift you are able to create your own future world where you can exist forever in bliss after your body dies. Now imagine this place is truly harmonious with a cottage that maintains itself, with an overall perfect temperature, and you feel a mild breeze that blows through the trees that never lose their leaves. There are no lawn and yard tools, because nothing ever needs to be done. The place is called Eximere, and it is shear perfection. But as a ghost, you learn of so many other places you can be, and Eximere loses its charm for the creator. One day, this paradise, Eximere, is discovered by a few living gifted people, Roy and his son Steven. They are in complete awe, unaware of how this paradise is maintained. They know there is a graveyard there, and among the many souls in this graveyard are the remains of their ancestor who began the same journal Roy and Steven use today to document their adventures with the paranormal. For some reason, all the graves are covered in a strange substance, blocking any way of learning about this paradise from those buried. All of a sudden, Eximere is now a nightmare, it is falling apart. Walls are disappearing, lights flicker in the sky, ghostly beings fade in and out, and the entire area shakes violently. Why are they losing their paradise?

Unbeknownst to Roy and Steven, the answer lies about 30 miles away in Grays Harbor. They are called to a home that is being terrorized by paranormal activity. When they arrive, they find a team of so called paranormal investigators who promise to displace or destroy anything that may be the cause of the problem. They only thing they do, is charge the family thousands of dollars, and make the situation much worse for the family, and for Eximere.

Even though this is book 8 in “The River Series” the author is able to smoothly explain the history of how Roy and Steven are able to flow into “the river” and see an alternate reality that is built on the paranormal. There are so many levels to this book, yet it flows quite smoothly. You want to turn the page. You want to find out about the secret in the basement of an abandoned house, and why bizarre objects in the wall are key to Eximere’s existence. How powerful are the ghosts of Gray Harbor? The only thing you don’t want is for the book to end. Like the other books in this series, you are not left hanging at the end of the book. Each adventure has a definite beginning, and a feeling of completion, so they can be read as standalone novels. I can almost guarantee, if you read this book, you will be back for the rest. Michael Richan is a genius! ( )